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🗓️ 19 July 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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With the House of the Dragon featuring *that* incest scene, we thought we'd look into the real history of sexual relations within families.
Has it always been taboo? How have the necessary degrees of separation between partners grown and shrunk over the years? And why were so many royal families keen on familial relations in the past...Hapsburg chin anyone?
Kate is Betwixt the Sheets with Brian Connolly to discuss the history of incest, an episode suggested to us by a listener. You can read more of Brian's work here.
WARNING: There is adult content and explicit words in this episode.
Senior producer: Charlotte Long. Producer: Sophie Gee & Stuart Beckwith. Mixed by Siobhan Dale.
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0:45.0 | You didn't hear that from me. |
0:46.0 | Right, all with the show. Sex dreams are a funny old thing, aren't they? They can really sneak up on you and leave you feeling a little bit or |
1:04.0 | disorientated |
1:05.7 | sometimes they're fabulous and they can feature someone that you have a raging |
1:09.5 | crush on that is a brilliant sex dream more of those or it can be somebody completely anonymous that your subconscious has just |
1:17.0 | Fabricated out of nowhere delicious more of those please but there really is no controlling who turns up in a sex dream and what |
1:27.4 | if I can barely bring myself to say the words out loud what if it was a family |
1:32.1 | member it happens to the best of us. |
1:36.2 | If you're listening to this thinking, it's happened to me, it's happened to me too, |
1:39.8 | betwixtus. It's, you wake up in a terrified sweat with a strong urge to go and smell |
1:45.2 | Dettle. But I think we need to talk about it because it is a universal if |
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